Now, to tinker with the code to change how the date is displayed will effectively screw things up all over the site, so my PHP file will have to change the date format based on the date in the string "$postdate"...

$split2 = trim($split[2]);
$split3 = split(" ", $split[4]);
//now this is a pain in the ass...
/*
$split[0] is month
$split[1] is day
$split2 is year
$split1[3] is hour
$split3[0] is minutes
$split3[1] Ante meridiem and Post meridiem
*/

Now where you get s and T Seconds, with leading zeros and Timezone setting of the machine....